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Gastrolobium formosum
About
Gastrolobium formosum is a small, trailing shrub, with red flowers, in the pea family (Fabaceae), which grows up to a metre high, on clays and loam in swamps and along river banks. The inflorescence consists of head of four unstalked flowers which is sheathed by a whorl of large bracts, with the flower petals being obscured by the lower calyx lobes. The standard petal is less than on third the keel petal. It is native to the south-west of Western Australia.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Gastrolobium formosum
- Slug
- gastrolobium-formosum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Gastrolobium
- Species
- formosum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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